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Title: | On deciding well-definedness for query languages on trees | Authors: | VANSUMMEREN, Stijn | Issue Date: | 2007 | Publisher: | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY | Source: | JOURNAL OF THE ACM, 54(4) | Abstract: | The well-definedness problem for a database query language consists of checking, given an expression and an input type, that the expression never yields a runtime error on any input adhering to the input type. In this article, we study the well-definedness problem for query languages on trees that are built from a finite set of partially defined base operations by adding variables, constants, conditionals, let bindings, and iteration. We identify properties of base operations that can make the problem undecidable and give restrictions that are sufficient to ensure decidability. As a direct result, we obtain a large fragment of XQuery for which well-definedness is decidable. | Notes: | Hasselt Univ, Theoret Comp Sci Grp, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. Transnatl Univ Limburg, Limburg, Belgium.VANSUMMEREN, S, Hasselt Univ, Theoret Comp Sci Grp, Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.stijn.vansummeren@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | verification; theory; languages; runtime errors; well-definedness; XQuery | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/4135 | Link to publication/dataset: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255443.1255447 | ISSN: | 0004-5411 | e-ISSN: | 1557-735X | ISI #: | 000248764700004 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2008 |
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